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In the Omnex\u00a0Winter 2015 newsletter<\/a>, released today, Kymal and Reid claim:<\/p>\n“The ISO\/TC 176 can consider moving the DIS to an IS and bypassing the FDIS, thus bringing out the standard earlier than planned.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
and<\/p>\n
“ISO 9001 could be released as soon as March 2015 if the TC 176 elects not to do an FDIS.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
The only problem is that it’s utterly untrue. Yes, ISO could have pushed for an early release, but that wasn’t on the table previously, and it’s definitely not on the table now.\u00a0Undeterred, when questioned, Reid said, “<\/em>[The article]\u00a0is correct. They can elect to by-pass FDIS but I don’t think they will.”<\/em><\/p>\n
Except, well… no. According to my peeps:<\/p>\n
ISO\/IEC Directives [allow]\u00a0that when the DIS meets the necessary approval criteria, the default procedure is to go directly from DIS to publication, but there is an option for the committee leadership to decide to include the FDIS.\u00a0 It has been stated by the leadership, in past meetings, that 9001 will go through the FDIS stage.\u00a0 At the last meeting, where the DIS comments were reviewed, the meeting finished off with an agreement that an end-to-end review would be done at the following meeting and then decide if the document is mature enough to be released for the FDIS ballot.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Presumably if the document was not deemed “mature” enough for FDIS, it would actually go through another<\/strong> DIS<\/strong><\/em>… not be fast-tracked to a published standard. But that’s unlikely:<\/p>\n
There doesn’t appear to be much chance of a second DIS, since the overall vote on the DIS was approval [and] to go to FDIS.\u00a0 And, with 3100+ comments on the DIS, there would be a lot of yelling and shouting, if countries didn’t have a chance to review the resultant output, before publication.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n